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" Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, 65 And sport and flutter in the fields... "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ... - Page 68
by Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 pages
...cards. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death survive. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements...mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylplfs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air. What guards the purity of melting...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pages
...cards. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive And love of ombre, after death survive. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements...retire : The sprites of fiery termagants in flame TBANSMIGBATION— continued. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 628 pages
...cards. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death survive. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements...their souls retire : The sprites of fiery termagants iu flame Mount up, and take a salamander's name. 60 Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip,...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 580 pages
...Portugal, the queen of Charles II. (since Waller has a poem 'On a card torn at Ombre by the Queen,') The Sprites of fiery Termagants in Flame Mount up, and take a Salamander's name. 60 Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea. The graver Prude...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 146

1870 - 784 pages
...though obsolete, is the classical pronunciation. Thus Pope sings in the Rape of the Lock, canto first, Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip with nymphs, their elemental tea. And also in canto third — Where thou, great Anna, whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel...
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Faust: A Tragedy, Part 1

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1871 - 438 pages
...imaginable." In the first canto of the Rape of the Lock, the passage occurs : — " For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements...roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, Ana sport and flutter in the fields of air." In the Comte de Gabalis, to which Pope refers, the four...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death survive.' For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements,...gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. 1 The drive in Hyde Park is still 3 Epilogue to Dryden's Tyrannick called the ring, though the site...
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The North American Review, Volume 112

1871 - 494 pages
...Succeeding vanities she still regards, And, though she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements...Mount up and take a salamander's name ; Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward...
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My Study Windows

James Russell Lowell - 1871 - 450 pages
...Succeeding vanities she still regards, And, though she plays no more, o'erlooks the cards. For when the fair in all their pride expire, To their first elements...Mount up and take a salamander's name ; Soft yielding nymphs to water glide away And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea; The graver prude sinks downward...
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The Philology of the English Tongue

John Earle - 1871 - 644 pages
...is enshrined in the verses of Alexander Pope. The following rhymes are from the Rape of the Lock. * Soft yielding minds to Water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, their elemental Tea.' (Canto i.) ' Here thou, great ANNA ! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes...
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